Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Mate, what was the palace made of, like, proper bright?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, make · To what, where: palace

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 palace	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 palace	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 palace	acl
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	6 palace	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bright	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bright	amod
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the palace	tree rules
2	make	participle		the palace not said here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	be		Mate not said here		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

bright yellow shining stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yellow	amod
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

gleaming white marble with gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 marble	amod
3	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gleaming	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gleaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gleam	gerund		white marble				with gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent marble=Theme

Option 3

cheap bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bricks	amod
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

white marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marble	amod
2	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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